The agenda's sponsors have been the U.S. government, with its commercial and security interests, reputation conscious multinational corporations, and multilateral aid agencies and NGOs pursuing their own plans. These actors have supported the global anticorruption agenda on the basis of both interests and values, which are closely intertwined. Such a complex interaction of interests and values motivated the first measures against cross-border corruption in the United States in the late 1970s, and their subsequent globalization after the Cold War.